Echinocentric @Echinocentric@social.cleverlibre.org

Democrats held the senate because The People understood the existential threat of the Republican Party to US, even as our Media Elite did everything they could to normalize political violence & creeping authoritarianism.

Incredibly, the House is still in play 🤞

I moved a few things around on my website, as having an Iowa-specific viz isn't functional one full day per week. Iowa reports Tuesday data on Wednesday, but the CDC reports that Tuesday data on Thursday for Iowa. It's... irksome. I still have the Iowa table on that page.

I took down the long-term care facility data with regard to vaccinations, as those data are also represented in the nationwide vaccination viz. The LTC vaccination viz was a beast that took forever to load and sometimes would crash when viewed on mobile.

As long as the @CDCgov@twitter.com doesn't screw with our datasets again (excepting hospital census which is expected to shift from HHS to CDC soon), vizzes should be stable for the foreseeable future.

Please, fellow white folks interacting with BIPOC folks. Listen; don't debate, don't give advice or make recommendations to unless it's explicitly asked for.

Our goal should be to learn how we can make things better. Here, on fedi, as well as the real world. That starts with listening.

All,

The moment has finally arrived! 🥳

@McCullohMD
@stevendavis , and I have been hard at work for the past week putting together a Mastodon instance so that we can create a backup disability and chronic illness community.

It can be found here:

disabled.social

For now, we have set up a terms of service, privacy policy, rules and best practices.

I have plans to set up a Twitter space to go through each of these with the disability community directly to add/subtract/reword things.

Underlying community transmission subset is done, now to mold Tableau to our needs.

Ever hear about “immunity debt”? It’s the idea that children’s hospitals are filling up with RSV patients bc we closed schools and didn’t infect enough kids with COVID to train immune systems.

It spread widely by major media despite lacking evidence.

The latest BS anti-public health narrative to become a moral panic — like the lockdown suicide waves or remote school learning loss. https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19-medical-critical-thinking/claims-immunity-debt-children-owe-us-evidence

Evidence just keeps mounting that we didn’t do nearly enough to stop the spread of COVID, but prominent minimizers have staked their reputations — and built huge audiences — on denial. That’s why their opposition to public health measures is so entrenched. They’ll never admit it.

There’s also a political component to denial. Operatives who work for right-wing, capital-aligned organizations — or get funding from them — will never accept the body of evidence out of fear of a return of "big govt"

At the end of the day, COVID minimization has killed and disabled hundreds of thousands of people — people of all ages. It has orphaned kids. It continues to encourage working people to accept a brutal normal that is more dangerous than the one that existed in 2019. It’s absolutely vile and we should remember. Never let the minimizers forget the harm they've caused.

Accountability is the only way to avoid the same deadly errors in the future.

“All students at the University of Barcelona will have to take a mandatory course on the climate crisis after the establishment agreed to meet the demands of activists conducting a sit-in occupation.” 👏👏👏


#Climate #ClimateChange #climatecrisis #ClimateJustice 


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/12/barcelona-students-to-take-mandatory-climate-crisis-module-from-2024

I have a patient w/a severe life limiting condition & its most feared complication.

And yet the biggest barriers to good health for him?

SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH.

All of the scientific advances in the world mean nothing if society can’t provide for our most basic needs.

@walkerbragman Agree, but unfortunately also many of the voices I’ve listened to the most on #Covid and #LongCovid (Michael Osterholm, Abraar Karan, Putrino Lab, Ziyad Al-Aly, aerosol folks besides @kprather88) apparently have not made the migration, either. Wondering how much more they need to see to decide that having a Plan B is a good idea.

This place seems pretty much unpolluted by COVID conspiracy theories and minimization.

I love it.

GOOD MORNING, MASTODONIANS. Just a reminder that if you're looking for something to do today in the tri-state region of Pennsylvania, welp, I'll be at Doylestown Bookshop at 3PM for a WAYWARD pre-launch event. Come get the book early! Do it! Or be forever exiled from the village!

My alternate Twitter account is @_thefabfrog_@twitter.com. I wish there was an easy way to untag the person who has my alternate account name without the underscores.